LOWELL BODGER

Thinking of you swinging on a star!

Well I have missed your birthday again, but this time only by a couple of days! And you would now have become a member of the 80-year old club, although there are increasingly few of us still here on the top side of the green to celebrate that! (And just maybe you know it already, but our roommate and friend Richard Erlanger didn't quite make it (after having lived with MS for more than 5 decades!), passing just a couple of weeks ago on 10/28.) But I still have a few great photos of you to...

Once upon a time long ago in the late 70s I was in SVA and had Lowell as an instructer.It was a class in experimental animation.My short abstract films always amused him...even the ones that I couldn't resolve or finish.Talking with him always seemed to suggest that the impossible was actually conceivably possible.One winter's morning he and I and two other students spent all morning in the head of the Statue of Liberty discussing all manner of art and life.Years later he attended one of East...

It just came to me as I was scrolling through some old photos that I have missed your November 8th birthday by a week. And so here is one of those photos, this taken as you, Paul Diamond, and I did some exploring along lower Manhattan's Hudson River waterfront in December of 1966. I know that you would remember this image, you standing there below the giant "L" for Lowell, and now others can remember it also. I am getting very old now Lowell, and I do think of you a lot!

Lowell was an instructor of mine while I attended School of Visual Arts in NYC in 1979. He was truly a thoughtful, and funny person. His assignments had us thinking way out of the box. At first semester he was hard to figure out, but after many thought provoking sessions, I realized how much of a treasure he was. One assignment was to create a unique toy. I made a strung mobile from all the pills found in my mother's purses, drawers and cabinets. Lowell was horrified at my creation, but gave...

Thinking of You, Lowell, on this day. I have had wonderful opportunities to connect with your friends, family, and collaborators - Joel, Amy, Philip, Jane, and the list grows. You were and still are so loved. I cannot wait to visit you again at Columbia.

I met Lowell in 1969 shortly after I began working with Lori as a designer at NYC´s Parks, Recreation & Cultural Affairs Administration. We soon became best friends. Our friendship last over forty years. Like many of Lowell´s friends l also have a collection of Lowell´s work, correspondence and other assorted memorabilia. I plan to donate it to Lowell´s archive at the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Jane Rodgers Siegel is one of the Archivists to contact. I hope this is...

Well it's the date of your birthday again, and I have gotten older and grayer, but you are timeless!!! I have been continuing to find things in my house from out of the past that have your name on them, and here is one which I hope that readers will get a big smile from. It was published in Asterisk 15, the Pratt literary magazine, in 1965, the year that we graduated. I think only you could have written, and illustrated, something quite so lovely and clever!

Dear Mr. Bodger, Happy Birthday to you! :) I've recently had the opportunity to connect with Bruce, Amy, and Philip - and the sparks and vibrancy of our connections felt like we've brought you back to our world! I will be NY soon, and may get a chance to sneak in to Columbia to view your work. Hope you'd be happy to know. Twelve years it took me, but I'm on it! Much love,